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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: Obviously the thread author who stated that Bantu languages come from the Nile Valley, or do you have poor reading comprehension?...But what do you expect from folks like Kemsonreloaded, Wally, and Clyde who are too consumed their own ideology that they refuse facts. [/QUOTE]As it is said, herein lies the rub. There are two schools of thought here on this subject: [b]1) the Static view[/b] - it follows this line of thought, [QUOTE] a common area of origin of the Bantu peoples, with the evidence pointing strongly to the region of present-day Cameroon-Nigeria border. It is thought that they migrated across the country eastward, across the southern Sudan, and then south, past the great lakes of the northeast. [/QUOTE]One then, has to believe that these peoples suddenly, or gradually, sprang from NOWHERE and into existence in Cameroon-Nigeria! These peoples, had never arrived from anywhere else on the continent! [b]2) the Process view[/b] - it follows this line of thought, [QUOTE]African history began with human history. The original locus of the African peoples was in the Great Lakes regions of Central/East Africa. It was here that the first languages emerged and with the subsequent migrations of these peoples over millenniums, distinct languages and dialects emerged and differentiation occurred. [b]And, it is through the comparisons of these languages, we can determine the areas in which any particular African language had previously occupied.[/b] Also, from these studies, we are able to determine that at a more recent period, a large majority of the African peoples, inhabited the collective area of the Nile Valley region, and would also, subsequently migrate from this new locus, back into the interior regions... [/QUOTE][b]Exception which proves the rule (ie, the Process view)[/b] The great exception which proves this rule is the occurrence of an isolated language, such as Basque, which shows no demonstrable genetic relationship with other languages (which has also been questioned). We, here, have been trying to demonstrate the genetic relationship of the African languages to these [i]static viewers[/i], who consistently refuse to see this process! (One of these persons here doesn't even comprehend that "Bantu" is a sub-family of "Niger-Congo!") The discussion then degrades into simplistic and evasive [b]name calling[/b], which is, nor ever will be an argument... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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